In the market town of Gongfang a restless magistrate oppresses the people, forcing them to surrender sons and daughters to serve a mysterious sorcerer on Red Crow Mountain. In the countryside, a wealthy rice broker torments the common folk with his extortionate exactions, driving the desperate into the forest to escape his thugs and bandits. And beneath those green boughs there are whispers of an illicit god, of a Golden Lord who will bring justice to the afflicted. Gongfang's fragile peace cannot last. But who will strike the blow that ends it, and who will pick up the fragments that remain?

Ten Buried Blades is an introductory adventure for the Godbound role-playing game of heroic demigods, available in both a Free Version and a Deluxe Edition. The misfortune-plagued border town of Gongfang is presented for the heroes' attention, with a fistful of calamities and sinister figures for the PCs to encounter. As an introductory adventure, Ten Buried Blades is written to help the novice Godbound GM and is structured to answer many of the questions that come up when you're hurling a pantheon of young divinities against an uncaring world.

Within these pages, you'll find….

Challenges and encounters built to match a pantheon of newly-created Godbound. Some can be overcome by divine force, while others compel the PCs to deal with situations that don't yield so easily to a bolt of celestial fury.

Notes on the Dulimbaian border town of Gongfang, the sinister monastery on Red Crow Mountain, the country estate of Big Feet Zu, and the hidden temple of the Golden Lord

Tips and examples for using divine Influence to change the situation in Gongfang

Information on what the Dulimbaian government might do when a pantheon of demigods shows up in a border town

Conversion notes for moving the adventure to a different location in your campaign

A brand-new True Strife, the fearsome Strife of Torment Defied for the damage-sponge titans of your group

Several new Dulimbaian theurgic invocations

A new low magic path, the Way of Pure Petitions for the austere adepts of Dulimbaian magic who bring luck and banish evil spirits with their sacred writings.

You can get Ten Buried Blades in PDF+epub+mobi formats, or grab the print edition which includes all the digital files as well. Note that the print edition is largely black-and-white; I've had it printed in standard color heavyweight due to the better quality of paper that format allows.

So get it now! Your budding heroes need a trial to match their mettle, and the dark forces in Gongfang await!

I read in the book that, if you want to change things up and put this story into a different nation, you can change things like the setting, terms, etc. Now, I was thinking about doing that, but I'm not entirely sure how and I was wondering if I could get some advice.

Right now, I'm thinking of putting this in the Raktine Confederacy. Any advice on what to change?

Alfred RNovember 04, 2016 3:03 pm UTC

Is there any way that a full-sized preview could be provided? The quick preview is very small and hard to get a look at.

Simon BOctober 17, 2016 3:10 pm UTC

PURCHASER

"Grab the print edition which includes all the digital files as well" - I've ordered the print edition, but no digital files are available AFAICS.

Luke WOctober 17, 2016 7:18 pm UTC

PURCHASER

I think it assumes you would choose the "print + PDF" which is the same price as just "print".

Kevin COctober 31, 2016 4:12 am UTC

PUBLISHER

Just noticed this now- if you accidentally picked the "print only" option, just drop me a note at sine.nomine.pub over at gmail.com and I'll make sure you get a code for the files.

Even though I've only just started playing Godbound, and haven't really tried Ten Buried Blades yet, I did buy and read through the adventure. I have to say: this is a really impressive, detailed, and fun read. I mean, technically, it's not so much a [...]

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